Tom Thompson, Live Feed (2001)

In Live Feed, Tom Thompson leads the pastoral deeply into a wild darkness of the here and now. Even more wonderfully, he leads it all the way to new light and hearty wakefulness. The project of American poetry is freshly companioned by these poems.

Catherine Wagner, Miss America (2001)

The poems of Catherine Wagner are instantly sacramental, immediately mysterious. Showing songlines to Spicer's profanity and to Zukofsky's purest register, they move through musics entirely their own. There, Miss America finds a broken world wide-open by unharmed. There, Wagner proves the wisdom of divided hearts. She is a mage and a marvel. I believe she is our best.